The College of Arts and Sciences is launching the Allen Lecture Series with inaugural speaker Michael Zimm, a digital media manager at Digital Surgeons.
His talk, “Bridging the Gap: What the Tech World Gains from the Liberal Arts,” is 5:30 p.m. Sept. 4 in Sheldon Museum of Art’s Abbott Auditorium.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Individuals from business, non-profit and the community are encouraged to attend. The Allen Lecture will bring outstanding local, regional or nationally recognized entrepreneurs who have liberal arts backgrounds to engage with students, faculty and the community.
Zimm received his doctorate in classics from Yale University. Research and writing skills honed as a graduate student are crucial to his work at a digital marketing company whose clients include Arccos, Camelbak, Lego and Sperry. He has written about the value of the liberal arts and his career shift for the Wall Street Journal, Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, VentureBeat and Quartz.
Longtime university supporters Dr. John Allen and Tammy Allen established the Allen Lecture Fund through the University of Nebraska Foundation for the series. The Allens are entrepreneurs whose background in liberal arts has led to a philosophy of lifelong learning. Both completed medical degrees at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Allen, an alumnus of the college, is a founding radiologist of Midwest Imaging Center.
